tramontane

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Dwelling beyond or coming from the far side of the mountains, especially the Alps as viewed from Italy.

adj. From another country; foreign.

n. A person who lives beyond the mountains.

n. A foreigner; a stranger.

n. A cold north wind in Italy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. From the far side of the mountains (especially from North of the Alps)

adj. foreign

adj. a classical name for the north wind

n. One living beyond the mountains; a foreigner; a stranger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Being or situated beyond the mountains—that is, the Alps: originally used by the Italians; hence, foreign; barbarous: then applied to the Italians as being beyond the mountains from Germany, France, etc. See ultramontane.

Coming from the other side of the mountains: as, tramontane wind.

n. One who lives beyond the mountains; hence, a stranger; a barbarian. See I.

Parting from thence, they sailed away with a tramontane or northerly wind, passing by Meden, by Uti, by Uden, by Gelasim, by the Isles of the Fairies, and alongst the kingdom of Achorie, till at last they arrived at the port of Utopia, distant from the city of the Amaurots three leagues and somewhat more.

The story, therefore, of the ancient philosopher whose bald pate one of these unlucky birds mistook for a stone, and dropped a shell upon it, thereby killing at once both, is not so tramontane as to stumble all belief.

I knelt very piously in one of the aisles while a symphony in the best style of Corelli, performed with taste and feeling, transported me to Italian climates, and I was quite vexed, when a cessation dissolved the charm, to think that I had still so many tramontane regions to pass, before I could in effect reach that classic country, where my spirit had so long taken up its abode.

Neither on the coast nor in the foot-hills will the invalid find the climate of the Riviera or of Tangier -- not the tramontane wind of the former, nor the absolutely genial but somewhat enervating climate of the latter.

One of the first to revive these tramontane expeditions was General Ashley, of Missouri, a man whose courage and achievements in the prosecution of his enterprises have rendered him famous in the Far West.

Everything there is regulated by resident partners; that is to say, partners who reside in the tramontane country, but who move about from place to place, either with Indian tribes, whose traffic they wish to monopolize, or with main bodies of their own men, whom they employ in trading and trapping.

"As soon as she was well clear of the headland she took the true breeze, undeflected, a moderate tramontane, and Jack, standing by the helmsman with the mater, said 'Luff and touch her.'"--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 205